
16 | 4.4 Pollinator Communities Sampling
protocol / PlutoF Go
Acknowledgements
Biodiversity Genomics Europe (Grant no.101059492) is funded by Horizon Europe under the
Biodiversity, Circular Economy and Environment call (REA.B.3); co-funded by the Swiss State
Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) under contract numbers 22.00173
and 24.00054; and by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the Department for
Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s Horizon Europe Guarantee Scheme.
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